Available Answers

1. 1.

   How many characters are in the room at the start of the play? Who are they?

2. 2.

   What work does the merchant do?

3. 3.

   Who is the most hard-working of the children?

4. 4.

   What is the first misfortune that the family suffers?

5. 5.

   What is the second piece of bad news for the family?

6. 6.

   Where do the sons and the father go and why?